Petro Pakhniuk missed the last European Championships due to a last-minute injury and said he struggled finding motivation for gymnastics at times. It seems that the struggle is over this season, even though this year he became a...
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Igor Radivilov was supposed to start the 2022 season at the Doha World Cup in the beginning of March. But when the war started on February 24th, all his training and competition plans were suspended. In the beginning, all...
Following Diana Varinska’s retirement announcement, another Ukrainian WAG star of the last few years Anastasia Bachynska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics: “I’ve been thinking for a long...
Ukraine’s Diana Varinska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics to Suspilne. The 2020 European champion in the team competition and the 2019 European Games bronze AA and beam medalist competed last at the...
When the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) banned Russian and Belarusian gymnasts from international competitions in March in response to the invasion of Ukraine, gymnastics leagues and individual clubs were faced with a...
UPDATE: TG Saar has officially announced on April 5th they are ending the collaboration with Nikita Nagorny due to his statements and public actions in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian and Belarusian...
Valentina Rodionenko told Russian media that the FIG is recommending a one-year disqualification for Ivan Kuliak and the coaches responsible for him at the competition – head of the delegation Valentina Rodionenko and the...
Flying to Germany in February, Ukrainian artistic gymnasts planned to attend two World Cups and go back to Ukraine. Some had additional plans, for example, Illia Kovtun was supposed to compete for his club in the Serie A in...
Russian gymnasts competed at their last international gymnastics competition in the near future due to the ban and, apparently, one of them decided to go out with a bang. Ivan Kuliak who made the parallel bronze final at the Doha...
The International Gymnastics Federation has announced today that Russia and Belarus will face sanctions due to the two countries’ invasion of their neighbor Ukraine. Upcoming FIG events in the two countries will be canceled...